Wordcel vs. Rotator Brainworms

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You may have noticed you didn’t get a newsletter last week—that’s because I was blissfully offline. I’d originally planned to work ahead and get some content ready for you in my absence, but that didn’t happen. And I had a few thoughts on that and other things that I’m going to rattle off briefly.

Touching grass

Somewhere during the month of January, it became nearly impossible for me to read more than a paragraph. The moment my eyes scanned the last words of one, a circuit would break and I’d notice that I’d clicked over to a new tab in my browser. There was lots of aimless clicking and I’d end up confusing the stories I was reading with each other, combining the intro of one article with the midsection of another. It wasn’t very dramatic, but it just felt like an aimless flattening of my internet experience. There’s not much more to it except that I was very burned-out—not really from work as much as from a